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This book is for all those who expect more from strategic planning and are tired of projects that unexpectedly decimate their budgets. Business leaders should be able to know how much a major effort will cost and monitor it effectively. Taxpayers should know the real cost of an effort they are entrusted to vote upon and be able to hold elected officials accountable through accurate monitoring. Politicians should be able to see adequate monitoring and pull the plug on efforts before they are on life support. Bankers and investors should know precisely what an effort should cost that they are asked to fund and be able to hold borrowers or executives accountable through accurate metrics. The truth is, all that can be understood if the tenets of this book are followed but otherwise cannot. This book is unique because the author is unique. The author is an MBA and certified as a PMP (Project Management Professional) in traditional project management, CSM (Certified Scrum Master), SFC (Scrum Fundamentals Certified) and SPOC (Scrum Project Owner Certified) for agile as well as the SPP (Strategic Planning Professional) and holds other technical certifications. Consulting for ten Fortune 500 companies, huge non-profits and government entities, including training seven provincial governors and numerous bankers of China, Duane has a unique approach. Trained and skilled in Business Process Re-Engineering, he focused his efforts to improving the industry that defined his career.Project management books supports the concepts of the Project Management Institute (PMI) that provide only partial information regarding creation of a budget and the method they describe to monitor projects only monitor about 50% of what should be included in a budget which renders it insufficient. This book takes you much deeper into project management and helps you understand everything necessary to 1) Create a budget that is much more advanced than PMI and will be much more realistic, 2) Create a schedule that will work, 3) Greatly enhance risk management. 4) Breakdown strategic plans into a portfolio of projects and monitor the progress of projects, the portfolio and strategic objectives correctly, without the use of worthless green, red or yellow lights, and 5)Understand how to meld PMBOK and agile to achieve the best of both worlds. Strategic planning must be improved. Project management, the tactical method of achieving strategic plans and leadership all must work together to improve business, our organizations and ourselves. To enhance success, learn to hire only the best or become the best by hiring or becoming Strategic Project Leader Certified (SPLC).

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